Cryptic speciation in Southern Ocean Aequiyoldia eightsii (Jay, 1839): Mio-Pliocene trans-Drake Passage separation and diversification.

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: González-Wevar, Claudio A., Gérard, Karin, Rosenfeld, Sebastián, Saucède, Thomas, Naretto, Javier, Díaz, Angie, Morley, Simon A., Brickle, Paul, Poulin, Elie
• Other Authors: Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Centro FONDAP de Investigación en Dinámica de Ecosistemas Marinos de Altas Latitudes (IDEAL), Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Marinos Antárticos y Subantárticos, Universidad de Magallanes, GAIA-Antártica, Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion Chile, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute UK, Falkland Islands Joint Nature Conservation Committee UK, Study funded by the following projects and institutions: an Initiation Fondecyt Project (11140087), the Program FONDAP Project No. 15150003, Regular Fondecyt projects (1161358) and (1151336), projects P05-002 ICM and PFB 023 (Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad IEB), CD GAIA Antártica, Universidad de Magallanes, CONICYT PIA ACT172065.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Biogeography; Southern Ocean; Antarctic-Magellan Connection; Kerguelen Islands; Antarctic Peninsula; South America; Morphometry; Systematics; Phylogeny; [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics; Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Ryen; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02182480; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.09.004

11 pages International audience The species of the genus Aequiyoldia Soot-Ryen, 1951, previously known as Yoldia, are common, soft-substratum, sareptid bivalves. In the Southern Ocean, Aequiyoldia eightsii (Jay, 1839) was originally described from the Antarctic Peninsula and has also been reported i...